Hard Man

Has Pearce finally found his match? A time-served Edinburgh hard man, Pearce is still recovering from the recent loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He’s invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from Wallace, her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets. Having found out that the baby’s not his, Wallace has sworn vengeance. Pearce declines the job: he’s no babysitter. But when Wallace kills Pearce’s dog, he goes too far. Now it’s personal. Time to find out who the real hard man is.

Reviews of Hard Man

'Hard Man is an Edinburgh festival of lip-smacking gruesomeness and black comedy, where every light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.' VAL McDERMID 'Scorched earth writing. A hurtling, high-wire ballet of hard-boiled violence … Riveting, nasty, dark, violent and utterly compelling. I couldn't put it down.' DENISE HAMILTON, Edgar-nominated author of Prisoner of Memory 'Blew me to hell and gone … line on line of wondrous expression … moved me in ways that hurt.' KEN BRUEN